We won’t bury the lead: The ABC journalism drama “Alaska Daily” is a solid, impressively credentialed and entertaining albeit conventional series that plays like a comfort-viewing, hourlong show from the 1990s. With a fish-out-of-water premise, an ongoing mystery plot that will no doubt play out over the course of the entire first season and story-of-the-week elements giving the viewer a dose of satisfying closure every episode, “Alaska Daily” has all the makings of a medium-level hit.
Maybe that’s damning with faint praise, but it’s more difficult than ever for traditional network television to keep up with the plethora of streaming giants lurking on everyone’s home screen, and even a relatively safe and at times predictable potential breakthrough is to be commended.
